Nigeria Schoolgirl Kidnap: Britain Offers Help

Slave Trade Numbers In Sub-Sahara Africa

Updated: 1:31pm UK, Tuesday 06 May 2014

As Nigerian authorities continue to look for hundreds of abducted schoolgirls, statistics show that sub-Saharan Africa accounts for more than 16% of the 29.8 million people in modern slavery.

Mauritania

Estimated slaves: 140,000 - 160,000
Mauritania has highest proportion of people in slavery in the world - up to 20% of the population may be enslaved
Slavery is primarily chattel

Benin

Estimated slaves: 76,000 - 84,000
Women and children trafficked for sexual exploitation, domestic work or forced labour
It is estimated more than 40,000 children are trafficking victims - they are used for domestic service and agriculture

Ivory Coast

Estimated slaves: 150,000 -160,000
The Ivory Coast is a source, transit and destination for women and children subjected to forced labour and sexual exploitation
The majority of victims are children who end up in agriculture, mining, fishing, construction and domestic work
Children also forced into work as street vendors and shoe-shiners

Gambia

Estimated slaves: 13,000 - 15,000
Main types of slavery are forced begging, child marriage, domestic servitude and forced prostitution, including child sex tourism
Women, girls and boys are trafficked into the country for commercial sexual exploitation

Gabon

Estimated slaves: 13,000 - 14,000
Gabon is a destination and transit country for victims from other parts of West and Central Africa
The country has a relative healthy economy which attracts young people who can end up becoming domestic/sexual slaves

Niger

Estimated slaves: 120,000 - 130,000
The practice of wahaya - taking on a fifth wife - sees women and girls of "slave caste" being bought and sold as unofficial wives
Men are officially allowed five wives

Nigeria

Estimated slaves: 670,000 - 740,000
Some 40,000 girls and women have been trafficked to nearby West African countries to serve as sex workers, according to the National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons

WORLDWIDE FIGURES

India

Estimated slaves: 13,300,000 -14,700,000

China

Estimated slaves:  2,800,000 - 3,100,000

Pakistan

Estimated slaves:  2,000,000 - 2,200,000

Total number of people in modern slavery: 29.8 million

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